In a parliamentary conference on the occasion of ending prosecution of Iranian Resistance in France
Maryam Rajavi: To confront extremism one should depend on pure, tolerant and democratic Islam
The regional crisis is caused by the crimes of the Iranian regime in Iraq and Syria and will only end with the eviction of the Iranian regime
On Tuesday, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, stipulated: “ISIS is the by-product of unprecedented crimes of mullahs in Iran, Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Maliki in Iraq, and their sectarian policy against a large section of the population in Iraq and Syria.”

Speaking for a group of French legislatures she added: “To confront extremism under the banner of Islam, a cultural and ideological alternative is essential; an alternative based on a tolerant and democratic Islam and gender equality. Absent such an alternative, the mullahs’ regime and the Sunni fundamentalists will undermine this confrontation with fundamentalism as a confrontation with Islam.”
Rajavi firmly ruled out the participation of the Iranian regime in the fight against ISIS that is promoted by regime’s lobbies and said: “This would be the greatest blow to the coalition because the Iraqi and Syrian nations would then see the coalition as siding with their archenemy which are the mullahs.”
Noting that it was through a belief in such an interpretation of Islam and by advocating it that the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) succeeded in presenting a cultural and social antithesis to this fundamentalist regime in Iran, she stressed: “Support for the Iranian Resistance will make this cultural alternative known to the public and thus contribute to attempts to curtail the recruiting of European youth by the fundamentalist forces.”
Rajavi emphasized on the need to emancipate the region from the fundamentalist terrorists, on delineating the real political sidings in the region, and on the participation of anti-fundamentalist and patriotic forces.
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance was speaking at a meeting in the Victor Hugo Hall at the invitation of the parliamentary committee for a democratic Iran (CFID) composed of legislators from the whole political spectrum at the French parliament.
The following personalities offered speeches to this conference: Edite Cresson, former French Prime Minister; Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former Algerian Prime Minister; a number of legislators of the French National Parliament, including Dominique Lefebvre, Gérard Charasse, Michel Terrot, André Chassaigne, Pascal Terrasse and Alain Néri, member of the senate; honorary Governor Yves Bonnet, former head of DST; Pierre Bercis, president of the New Human Rights Organization; Taher Boumedra, former UNAMI Chief of Human Rights and in charge of Camp Ashraf dossier; Gilles Paruelle, former head of the bar association in Val d’Oise.
This parliamentary conference was held at a time that just recently French judges had brushed aside all charges against the Iranian Resistance that had been brought up more than a decade ago as a result of the collaboration of the French government at that time with the mullahs’ regime. The French judges issued an order to conclusively end this prosecution; thereby terminated an entirely political file after fourteen years.
Speakers condemned the visit by Iranian regime’s parliament head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee to France and stated that at a time that the violation of human rights and the meddling of this regime in the region has taken on unprecedented dimensions, such visits work against peace and human rights in Iran and the region. In this meeting, senator Jean-Pierre Michel, co-founder of the French Committee for a Democratic Iran (CFID), called on the French legislators and officials to publicly and officially express to the representative of the Iranian regime the repugnance of the French people, parliament and government regarding crimes such as the splashing of acid on women, the hanging of a young woman for self-defense against an attempt to violate her, and the collective executions during Rouhani’s tenure that amount to over 1000 hangings; otherwise, such visits will completely benefit the Iranian regime.
Maryam Rajavi denounced West’s inaction in face of the crimes of the Iranian regime in supporting the Assad dictatorship and noted the malign rule of the Shia militias affiliated with the Iranian regime in vast sections of Iraq that is taking place through cooperation with Maliki’s forces and said: “During these years, not only the United States not voiced any protest against these actions, but praised Maliki’s measures. The by-product of these crimes was the expansion and strengthening of ISIS in Syria and Iraq. This was the outcome of showing leniency towards the most horrendous dictatorship in contemporary times and its proxies.” She warned: “And now, the mullahs of Iran are exploiting this policy by the West; poised to fill the vacuum created by the ISIS retreat as a result of the international coalition attacks with the militias.”
In assessing the nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 and the Iranian regime she said: “The Iranian regime is trying to preserve its nuclear weapons projects by exploiting the policy of appeasement and by employing all kinds of deceptive tactics.” She went on to warn: “Any deal should include the unconditional implementation of the Security Council resolutions, a complete halt of all enrichment, and intrusive inspections of all sites and suspicious centers; otherwise, the path of this regime to obtain the nuclear bomb will remain unimpeded.”
Rajavi called unacceptable the inaction by the West regarding the cruel suppression of the Iranian people by the ruling religious fascism, including tormenting to death of the political prisoners, the harassment of religious and ethnic minorities, and the arrest, pressuring and incarceration of lawyers, journalists and internet activists, and called for an effective measure to end this tragic situation.
Referring to the escalating suppression during Mullah Rouhani’s tenure who has over 1000 executions in his record and now the crime of splashing acid on women has been added to it, Rajavi said: “This is the true nature of the Iranian regime which is the Godfather of ISIS and its tyranny and cruelty towards the Iranian people is a hundred fold worse than the actions of ISIS.
Mullahs have been defeated by the Iranian women. Their reactionary impositions on the Iranian society have reached a dead-end and their rule is extremely shaky and unstable. They cannot save themselves by this blatant barbarism and by the tyrannical execution of Rayhaneh Jabbari.”
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance expressed hope that with the removal of Maliki in Iraq, the French government would employ all tools at its disposal for Camp Liberty to be recognized as a refugee camp under the United Nations’ supervision, for the siege and in particular the medical blockade to be lifted, for the minimum requirements for the provision of security and well-being of the residents to be ensured for as long as they are in Iraq, for the seven hostages of the September 1 massacre in Ashraf including six women to be freed, and to have the United Nations conduct an investigation into this great crime and bring its perpetrators to face justice.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 28, 2014